Ruby Dee Movies

List of the best Ruby Dee movies: A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner(1998), That Man of Mine(1947), Countdown at Kusini(1976), No. 2(2006), Uptight(1968), Gone Are the Days(1963), The Jackie Robinson Story(1950), The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson(1990), Video Girl(2010), Steam(2007), Taking Back Our Town(2001), Do the Right Thing(1989) ... ...

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A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

This intimate documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help those discarded by society. The film traces the evolution of Norma's ... See full summary »

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That Man of Mine

A producer and his director argue about who should be cast as the female lead in their new film and offend the woman they reject for the part.

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Countdown at Kusini

An Afro-American jazz pianist (Greg Morris) becomes involved with a patriot (Ossie Davis) hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

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No. 2

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Uptight

Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic, "The Informer."

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Gone Are the Days

An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin ... See full summary »

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The Jackie Robinson Story

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.

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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.

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Video Girl

An aspiring ballerina, after a knee injury, ends up in a new career as a video girl. She soon figures out that fame is not all that it is cracked up to be.

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Steam

Steam tells the stories of three women, linked only by the steam room at the local gym. The women seem "stuck" in life, until eachfinds a new, fulfilling relationship.

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Taking Back Our Town

Pat Melancon (Laura Innes) and Emelda West (Ruby Dee) work together to stop a corporation from building a petrochemical plant.

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Do the Right Thing

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

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A Raisin in the Sun

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

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Take a Giant Step

A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War ... See full summary »

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Buck and the Preacher

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

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Cop and a Half

Teaming with a crusty detective (Burt Reynolds) is a dream come true for an 8-year-old murder witness (Norman D. Golden II).

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Passing Glory

The Rev. Joseph Verrett (Andre Braugher) organizes a game between his team of black champions and an undefeated white prep-school team in New Orleans.

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It's Good to Be Alive

Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella (Paul Winfield) adjusts to life in a wheelchair after a 1959 car accident.

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St. Louis Blues

Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the ... See full summary »

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The Way Back Home

Life affirming spiritual drama about love and loss set in the lush surroundings of Central Florida. Spencer Krane has returned to the town where he was raised. It is the news that his ... See full summary »

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The Tall Target

A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.

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Edge of the City

Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.

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Cat People

A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

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A Thousand Words

After stretching the truth on a deal with a spiritual guru, literary agent Jack McCall finds a Bodhi tree on his property. Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word he speaks.

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Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary

Cornel West, Alice Walker, Angela Davis and others discuss the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an imprisoned journalist who continues to write, provoke and inspire from behind prison walls.

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Virgin Island

An American writer (John Cassavetes) and his bride (Virginia Maskell) bask in the Caribbean, with an islander as their man Friday (Sidney Poitier).

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Black Girl

An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy ... See full summary »

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No Way Out

A hoodlum (Richard Widmark) sparks a race riot after his brother dies under a doctor's (Sidney Poitier) care.

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American Gangster

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

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Mr. and Mrs. Loving

M.J. Clayton is a high profile Art Critic in Chicago. He is known throughout the country for his heartless and angry reviews, and is often scolded by his publisher. After a particularly ... See full summary »

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